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·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 21%
·	Over the last 6 months: · 12 insider sells; 175.2M shares (46.5% of insider shares)
·	Institutional: 69% (87% of float) (1,400 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Buying: 203.7M shares (+23.25%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

Sprint FON Group (Sprint), a subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, is conducts business through a global markets division, a local division, and a product distribution and directory publishing businesses. The main activities of the global markets division include domestic and international long distance communications (except for consumer long distance services used by customers within Sprint's local franchise territories), Sprint ION, broadband fixed wireless services and certain other ventures. The activities of the local division include local exchange communications and consumer long distance services used by customers within Sprint's local franchise territories. The product distribution business provides wholesale distribution services of telecommunications products. The directory publishing business publishes and markets white and yellow page phone directories.

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Financial Summary

Sprint FON Group is comprised of Sprint's wireline telecommunications operations including long distance, local telephone, product distribution and directory publishing. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues decreased 2% to $8.67 billion. Net income from continuing opts. before extraordinary item and applicable to Common fell 25% to $609 million. Revenues reflect a decline in the international long distance business. Earnings also reflect the increase in operating expenses.

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Officers

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	FY2000 Compensation
	Pay	Exer

William Esrey, 61 Chairman and CEO	$1.4M	$36.3M
Ronald LeMay, 55 Pres, COO	1.0M	42.3M
Arthur Krause, 59 CFO, Exec. VP	575K	8.2M
Michael Fuller, 56 Pres - Local Telecommunications Division	523K	9.1M
Don Hallacy, 44 Pres--Technology Services	--	--
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.

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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:FON

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 31-May-2001	$`19.06`
Recent Price	$`23.34`
52-Week High on 1-Sep-2000	$`34.063`
Beta	`0.65`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`4.06M`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`1.83M`
Stock Performance
big chart [1d \| 5d \| 3m \| 6m \| 1y \| 2y \| 5y \| max]
52-Week Change	`-31.5%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`-8.1%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`22.7B`
Shares Outstanding	`973.4M`
Float	`771.8M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)	$`0.50`
Dividend Yield	`2.14%`
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 7-June-1999

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)	$`12.98`
Earnings (ttm)	$`1.23`
Earnings (mrq)	$`0.33`
Sales (ttm)	$`19.71`
Cash (mrq)	$`0.04`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)	`1.80`
Price/Earnings (ttm)	`18.96`
Price/Sales (ttm)	`1.18`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`17.5B`
EBITDA (ttm)	$`4.48B`
Income available to common (ttm)	$`1.09B`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`6.2%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`12.0%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	Dec 31
Most recent quarter	30-June-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`4.62%`
Return on Equity (ttm)	`8.86%`
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)	`0.70`
Debt/Equity (mrq)	`0.44`
Total Cash (mrq)	$`40.0M`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`15.8M`
Percent of Float	`2.0%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`15.7M`
Short Ratio	`5.03`
Daily Volume	`3.14M`

See Profile Help for a description of each item above; M = millions; B = billions; mrq = most-recent quarter; ttm = trailing twelve months; (as of 30-June-2001)

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